Gail Rubin

Gail Rubin (April 12, 1938 – March 11, 1978) was an American freelance photographer. During her career, she worked as both a war photographer and a nature photographer. She was murdered by Palestinian Liberation Organisation members in a 1978 attack that became known as the Coastal Road massacre.

In 1969 she traveled to Israel on vacation and decided to move there. There, she worked as a nature photographer and served as a war photographer during the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. Natural History, and Time-Life's Photography Annual 1979.

Her work was exhibited at the Jewish Museum in New York in February 1977, She was the first of 38 people to die in what became the Coastal Road massacre. She was shot dead by Dalal Mughrabi.

She was a relative of then-U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff, who denounced her killing as "an indefensible act of terrorism that deserves universal condemnation".

A traveling exhibit of her works opened in 1987 at the 92nd Street Y in New York and traveled to 15 other locations including the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Long Island University, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. The final exhibit location was at the Jerusalem Theatre in Israel in 1989.